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AROUND ONE PER CENT of all the trees in Ireland’s forests fell down during the recent storms.
The bad weather, which was one of the worst storms in the country since Met Éireann started keeping records, felled between 5,000 and 7,000 hectares of forest, mainly in Munster.
Tom Hayes, the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, said it would take Ireland’s sawmills between 8 and 10 months to process all the trees which were blown over.
The figures were put together by a special Government taskforce which was was set up to gather information about the extent of the forest damage. The taskforce made up of forestry interest groups has produced a guidance note for forest owners with advice on what to do next.
The group said that around 1 per cent of the forest volume has blown down, which equals just under 1 per cent of the forest area.
Hayes urged forest owners to get professional advice from qualified foresters about the large-scale destruction and said that there could still be value in the fallen trees.
“I fully understand the shock and anguish experienced by forest owners whose forests have been blown over by the recent storm,” he said.
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it seems hash and weed is all the guards can get STOP wasting time going afterthosedrugs i would think all resorces and time should be spent trying to get as much herion and cocaine of the streets they are the problem drugs people will do crazy things to get there hands on those drugs when they have no cash which is always, com on get your act together enough is enough earn your wage end of
@Danny
I would like to point out that I work with drug addicts every day! Class B (HASH)has longer lasting and probably even worse effects than the various Heroin’s, Crack’s , amphetamine’s that are out there
Long term use makes people so paranoid, and it’s a very different situation then that most perceive Class B the calming relaxing effects that we see on TV
If u think our Law Enforcers are wasting their time Then I suggest u have a good think about this 1, if your child had been smoking this (SHITE is how i would describe it ) for years and their once intelligent curious minds were active now there brains are so fried that you can’t even have a simple conversation with them , then maybe u would think twice !!!!!
Class A,B, &C are all as bad as each other,
Illegal Importers, Dealers of banned illegal substances should not be jailed its too good for them, they should be made work day in day out in homes where these poor folk are detained due to drug induced mental health issues! That would teach them!
I call bullshit Anita, how can you put cannabis in the same category as heroin? Are you for real? I haven’t heard of anyone dying of a cannabis overdose. Also, cannabis doesn’t necessarily make people paranoid, it affects people differently. And you work with these people? God help them.
Lol @ hash addicts
Cannabis is a gateway drug which not always but can often lead to the use of heavier class A drugs. By inhibiting the gateway drug they are still lessening the impact and demand for class A drugs. ‘nipping it in the bud’ as such.
Good work again by Customs and police.
I hope they throw away the key.
Great news.. will hopefully drive up the price for all the stoners.
thats a lot of peoples medicine gone down the drain :(
Ah Jesus, my 3 million spot is gone. My weekend is ruined
The two Irish are a couple who are very well known in the Cork city chattering classes brigade. Your man has a penchant for fast expensive cars. Now everyone knows how he could afford them.
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